A LITTLE BEDTIME READING FROM ME

If you'd like to read any of the conference papers for the panel that I've organized for the Midwest Political Science Association meeting in Chicago in April, you can go to the conference papers website. Our panel title is "The Contested Civic Constitution," and it's scheduled for 10:30 on Sunday morning. If you're in Chicago the first weekend in April, drop on by!!

My paper has got a composite title -- one that I wrote before the paper was finished, and the subtitle I added to more accurately reflect what I actually wrote: "Citizen Constitutional Knowledge, Civic Capacities, and Constitutional Meaning: the Civic Constitution Meets Interest Groups and Social Movements." The paper is available as a PDF file here.

Other papers in our panel are: Bruce Altschuler's "Civil Liberties After 9/11: What Price Security?", Galya B. Ruffer's "Detention by Any Other Name? National Security, Civil Liberty and the Need for Constitutional Understanding," Dennis Goldford's "We the People, or We the People (of the Several States)?" and Lynda Dodd's "Citizen, Plaintiff: The Politics of Constitutional Torts."